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German mail service stops using domestic flights to transport letters after nearly 63 years

A live TV news station covering breaking news and traffic for Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and Southern Colorado with a strong investigative team Germany's main national postal carrier, Deutsche Post, has stopped using domestic flights to transport letters for nearly 63 years. The move reflects the declining significance of letter mail and allows Deutsche Post to reduce its climate footprint by over 80%. The last planes carrying letters between northern and southern Germany, operated by Lufthansa unit Eurowings and Tui Fly, flew overnight on the Stuttgart-Berlin, Hannover-Munich, and Hannoversover-Stuttgart routes. Letters will now be transported by road, reducing transport-related carbon dioxide emissions on the routes.

German mail service stops using domestic flights to transport letters after nearly 63 years

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BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s main national postal carrier has stopped using domestic flights to transport letters after nearly 63 years. The move reflects the declining significance of letter mail and allows it to improve its climate footprint. Deutsche Post said Thursday the last planes carrying letters between northern and southern Germany, operated by Lufthansa unit Eurowings and Tui Fly, flew overnight on the Stuttgart-Berlin, Hannover-Munich and Hannover-Stuttgart routes. It said letters between those destinations will now be transported by road, allowing the company to reduce transport-related carbon dioxide emissions on the routes by over 80%.

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